Mark Franklin, practice leader of CareerCycles and co-founder of OneLifeTools, says that symptoms could arise from things like: "Disliking your work consistently, for example, because you have little or no control over your work." But even if you have an autonomous position, burnout can be brought on by poor work relationships, either with employers, employees or co-workers.
We reached out to some experts for more on what causes burnout and what you can do if you find yourself experiencing it.īurnout is specifically work-related, but that's still a broad field - an infinite number of occupational dynamics could come into play. The WHO's particular definition not only helps people understand what burnout is, but also raises greater awareness of its severity, hopefully paving the way for greater access to help dealing with it. Researchers have been studying the concept of burnout more closely over the past four decades.
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In its International Classification of Diseases handbook the WHO defines burnout as "a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed." It then goes on to characterize burnout in three ways, "1) feelings of energy depletion of exhaustion 2) increased mental distance from one's job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job and 3) reduced professional efficacy." The definition also makes it clear that burnout is specific to an "occupational context", rather than other areas of life, and that it's a separate condition from adjustment disorder, mood disorders, anxiety/fear disorders and other stress-related conditions. Burnout has increasingly become a more distinct and dire concept and now, thanks to the World Health Organization (WHO), it's considered a legitimate syndrome. You may have described your state as "burnout", but you didn't have "burnout", you were more likely just really tired, right? Wrong. Your work/life balance becomes totally out of whack, you find your to-do list is barely completed (if at all) and you get the sensation that you're mentally and physically "hanging on by a thread". We've all felt it, even if we didn't know exactly what it was.
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